Psalm 140:3

American King James Version (1999)

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

Proverbs 12:18

There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

Isaiah 59:13

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.